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The heart knows more than the mind can understand, question or even suspect.

Sometimes there is peace in not seeking answers.
Sometimes there is bliss in not even asking questions.
It's simply because your heart already knows the answers to questions which your mind has not yet asked.

I know what I wrote doesn't make sense.
But answers that don't make sense come from the heart
- not from the mind.

Now,live in the present,run like hell and all for nothing

A person died in the morning due to old age and quite a few of his relations made it to the funeral.He died early in the morning,wee hours of the morning just when night is giving to the coming day.not light or bright but just the caws,squeaks of the birds who probably went hungry the previous day and cant wait for it to be day so they could forage.Or maybe they were the fearful cries of terror for it is in the night the cat scampers up silently through the branches and snatches a quick meal of baby bird.


By five in the evening the funeral procession started off and no one walked for most of the dead mans relations were more or less on their death beds and so all and sundry travelled by hired maruti vans and fast track indica coffins.Some of the oldies kept pushing the driver to go faster for they wanted to reach the crematorium in a hurry and leave in hurry.Some did it cos they would not be able to hold their bodily fluids for long.some did it cos they just wanted to get to their homes and feel safe( HA,HA,HA,SAFE ARE YOU REALLY SAFE) and still some were bored of death and funerals and just wanted to get back to their tv serials and feel comforted by the daily dose of brain damage.


Well the body was burnt and as life had slipped away early in the morning members who had come slowly slipped away as theives do and most used the excuse that those who come to funerals should not say goodbye or see you soon for then they are inviting death or some ill omen.Some of them were married to death in the guise of spouses and lived with children worse than death and ill omens and they worried about niceties and formalities.



A baby,a grown up man now burnt to ashes and soon a priest scavenged among his bones and picked a few which looked like bleached bark and set about chanting and moaning sanskrit sloaks and vedic mantras.He had to stop often for his mobile rang every ten minutes and chanting over bleached bones the man kept fixing appointments to do the same the next day for a few more who had died just then or earlier in the afternoon.Wonder what will or who will chant over his dead bones.


The house was hosed and washed clean to wipe away death and ward away death when memories lingered and will remain for soem time.A few days later a photo of the dead man hung where he was smiling with his teeth intact but probably taken when gandhi was still alive and kicking.but for the family nobody would recognise him from the photo to how he looked when he died.For a few days his wife bawled whenever she went past his photo but then recovered and went to watch thendral and naadhaswaram.A few weeks passed and then a few months slowly the photo of the dead man was replaced by a beautiful photo of ganapathy and the dead mans photo was moved into the store room and the excuse was that seeing him made everybody sad.

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . . Does our being alive matter?

True friendship comes when silence between two people becomes a language.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

No God, No Peace, Know God, Know Peace.

The more we do, the more we can do

Romance is like chess - one false move and you're mated.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Failure doesn't mean that you are inferior. It means you are not perfect.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Alphabets are so intelligently arranged... they show you the way of life...


"A"lways "B"e "C"ool.

"D"on't have "E"go with "F"riends n Family.

"G"ive up "H"urting "I"ndividuals.

"J"ust "K"eep "L"oving "M"ankind.

"N"ever "O"mit "P"rayers.

"Q"uietly "R"emember God.

"S"peak "T"ruth.

"U"se "V"alid "W"ords.

"X"press "Y"our "Z"eal.

Animate,inanimate,life,lifeless and yet eternal


A rock or a piece of stone is just not that. you pick it up,toss it around and then chuck it ate some target you have been aiming.But deep in that rock atoms and molecules are spinning,tightly packed,densely packed and yet there is energy at the atomic level.Well when the kudankulam nuclear project came under heavy protests i wondered why those protesters just didnt stop and look up at the sun for that is the biggest nuclear reactor in our part of the universe and well apart from life it also gives you large doses of skin cancer( remember to carry your sunscreen with high rating).


Some of the oldest rocks on our earth are nearly 3 to 4 billion years old and then we think that things that move are alive and things that lay still are dead and lifeless.True but then you have our prime minister manmohan singh who looks alive and yet is dead and inanimate.Maybe he is god incarnate for he is neither alive or dead,neither animate nor animate.Decades in the future they will probably do dna testing and see if he has alien dna in his body.


Sometimes on my trip to bangalore driving my car i push the pedal down to see how fast it can go and soon at about 160 kms it maxes out and the vibrations from the steering wheel starts to do strange things to my body so i slow down and come back to sensible levels.But just imagine we on planet earth are travelling at fantastic speeds and have the greatest view of all as we are riding the cosmic highway.I know most of you know it but it really turns me on to say that earth is moving at 67,062 miles per hour.Just imagine that,not the fastest formula car,not even the most powerful rocket can match that and then that is nothing when you compare the speed our solar system is moving at and that is 568,000 m.p.h.


A shallow dive into the depths of astronomy starts throwing up numbers of distances,speeds,sizes,gigantic explosions that they boggle your mind but also humble you into submission and realise that our earth is just a grain of dust in the scale of cosmic universe.When was the last time you stood in total darkness in the night and looked at the stars which glitter like diamonds in the sky.

Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return"

Many a time just as the sun is coming up in the eastern sky,many people mostly older folk turn towards the rising sun and say,whisper and chant something.I used to wonder and with a smirk go on with my run.But nowadays i see the sun in a new light,enlightened light aware of it and its power.for nearly 4.5 billion years it has been bathing the solar system with its power and yet only on earth has it provided life and will continue to provide for another 5 billion years.Yes and then it will die too taking most of the inner planets with it.Awesome isnt it billions of years and think of our puny lifetimes and puny lives we lead.


We struggle,we fight and try to hold on for an eternal life for eternal memory and what does it all mean.Think about it you are eternal for the iron in your blood,the calcium in your bones were all created in the stars.Before the sun came into existence where was it but in the bowels of another star.life,death and rebirth is the true and eternal life cycle and why do you want the human form to die,be born again,reincarnate when you are truly eternal in your atomic level.The very air you breathe has been breathed in by trillions of lives on earth and it is their energy we live on.So when you lay down for the last time remember and rejoice in the knowledge that you never die and really live eternally among the stars forever and foreverBe well.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you€™re ugly too.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse

Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America

I used to be indecisive. Now I€™m not sure.

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

If at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.

Going to church doesn€™t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.

We are all part of the ultimate statistic -- ten out of ten die

I've had amnesia as long as I can remember.

SINGHAM 2


So i finally went and saw singham 2 although my mind was filled apprehensions about the story and having to sit through 3 hours of a film.Well all the reviews of the film have uniformly said,screamed their lungs out that the second part is not a patch on the first part and the sequel was taken just to make money and just to boost up suryas image which took a beating from 7aam arivu and maatraan.Seriously surya cant be blamed for the films failing cos he did a great job in both the films and full marks to him for trying roles of boddhidharman and conjoined twins.


Well they didnt work and singham 2 has worked big time and looted the cash counters.The question begs why.Honestly i think it is just suryas earnest and hard work which has paid off.For when you are watching the film you realise that nobody looks better and nobody has better lines and nobody has better screen presence.hansika motwani is chirpy and cheerful But i guess her,single expression tammanah work for tamil fans who just want fair maidens to dream of.anoushka comes,goes,dissappears and is there just to please the fans.


The biggest let down are the villains.One tall non acting mukesh rishi who does the same acting and gives the same expression in all his films.I bet he has the same expression when he sleeps, eats .God knows what director hari was thinking when he cast that guy.Now we realise the worth of prakash raj,even if we are tired of him.At least he looks like a bad and menacing and not like the these villains who will probably scare the wits out of you with their bad acting and looks.


Just during interval you feel a pain,a throb and realise you have a bad headache.Fast paced film does not mean that all actors scream their lines so fast that a scene is over before you can understand it.This is the only place where i can find fault with surya for he is the biggest culprit when it comes to those scenes with punch lines.You just cant understand what he is mumbling.


Most of the scenes are filled with cars,jeeps racing in and racing out.cops coming in and going out of police stations.And just like that the film is over and you walk out with a huge headache and remembering very few scenes of the film.For me only santhanam was the saving grace apart from surya.



After watching any film what remains in your memory or what you take away from the film are a very few scenes.For example titanic had lot of great scenes but most people remember the final scene when rose pushes jacks body into the depths of the ocean.


Sadly singham 2 does not have one good scene which you feel touched or go wow.surya looks very handsome as a cop and that is it you have paid 160 bucks at inox to see surya in a police uniform.Maybe that is better than paying that much to see ajith parade in suits inslow motion with his paunch hanging out.


Note Hi Satish. It had came to our attention that inappropriate name calling and harsh/abusive words is being used to describe characters on Singam 2. Of course you are allowed to voice out your opinion but extreme name calling is not an option. Those lines have been edited. Kindly refer the rules and regulation we follow in this section and feel free to contact Other's Topic Dev Team in case of any clarifciations. Thank you.

I haven't watched Singam 2, but I think you aptly voiced out the public's opinion really well.

A BELIEVABLE GOD


The release of thalaivaa at ssr pankajam brought to you the images of people pouring milk over the image of vijay and yes it was the first day and first show after a delayed release.Euphoria filled the air and people were ecstatic that they would finally see their hero in action.A boy committed suicide because the film was not released.Some of them were openly crying out of sheer excitement and the tears were just a release of pent up emotions.This is it,this is the power of cinema and to a certain extent television.


Take a break and pause your thoughts about that and come away with me into the 1970's when i was just 6 or 7 years old.I grew up in a normal household and where we practised normal hindu customs and traditions.We did not eat non-veg food on monday and saturday and the rest 5 days if anything was found flying or creeping around our house it went into the frying pan.Yes all festivals were celebrated grandly and our gods room were filled with ornate framed photos of vinayaga,amman,mahalakshmi,saraswathi,balaji and the foursome pic of rama,lakshmana,sita and hanuman.But all these gods fell into place and rooted themselves in my soul only after i saw them portrayed in films like NTR'S sampoorna ramayanam,Shivaji's thiruvilayadal,thiruvarutselvar,saraswati sabatham and more and more.And yes for a very long time i thought they were all really gods and i used to imitate my grand mother when she used to fold hands and bow whenever she saw nt rama rao dressed as lord krishna or venkateshwara.



For most people who grow up reading epics and stories filled with awesome heroics all their imaginations and dreams come alive in the guise of their favourite hero and films.Television serials like ramayana and mahabharatham in hindi have done much more for the well being of religion than most holy men will ever do.
But today for the youth, actors like rajini,kamal,vijay,surya and ajith are more believable heroes and are hence raised to god like status and are given mythical qualities.Why then did MGR,NTR become chief ministers.

There are many who smirk,laugh and even run down actors and actresses and their personal lives and look down on them as taboo.Even today many film and tv actors find it difficult to rent houses because their film lives are looked at suspiciously.

When actor surya strides across the big screen with dignity and energy,you tend to wonder if there are really cops in real life who are as good as him.Remember punnagai arasi kr.vijaya in all her amman roles and please let us not go into her drinking problems.But yes actors have this larger than life image and yes they fall,always fail to keep up to the standards we raise them up to.

where do we draw the line between illusion and reality.Come friday,people flock to mounds and it does not matter if it is just dirt piled up at the roadside.but as long as it resembles a mound with a nalla pambu living there then they will pour milk over it.God help that nalla pambu if it tries to flee the milk shower for it will be chased and killed and when in reality it could be just a rat snake.


As for me i would rather watch surya in singham or vijay in thuppaki and dream about heroes who will save me and my country rather than hope for bandicoots and hyenas who live in our parliaments.

I'm bemused at the non-stop comments Vijay's fans keep posting on his youtube Thalaivaa trailer.